Judge Reggie B. Walton, if anyone would like an image to go with the name... for later.
Posted on 07/30/2021 6:44:28 PM PDT by RandFan
A federal judge erupted at a Capitol riot defendant who refused to wear a mask during his hearing, telling the defendant “You don’t make the rules.”
The confrontation took place during a hearing for defendant Daniel Goodwyn, according The Washington Post. He pleaded not guilty in April to five charges in connection with the riots.
According to court records, prosecutors were trying to revoke Goodwyn’s pretrial release over his behavior, including repeatedly flouting orders to wear a mask.
During Friday’s hearing, Goodwyn’s attorney, Daniel Hull, explained to Judge Reggie Walton that Goodwyn had autism, which makes it harder for him to wear masks, the Post reported.
But when asked why he wouldn’t wear one, Goodwyn simply said “it stresses me out,” adding “I believe I would not cause someone to die by not wearing a mask.”
Instead of locking him up, Walton decided to order Goodwyn to wear a mask whenever he meets with pretrial services or appears in court, according to the newspaper.
But Walton was clear: “If you can’t do that I’m going to have no alternative [but] to lock you up and keep you locked up until this case is resolved.”
“They don’t have to put their lives at risk, they don’t have to, and they will not,” Walton continued, referring to court staff.
Goodwyn replied: “I understand [but] I’m not going to do that, sir.” He added that Texas doesn’t require masks indoors.
“I don’t care what the law in Texas is,” Walton fired back. “You don’t make the rules. You will be arrested.”
When Goodwyn was arrested at his parent’s home in Texas, the FBI learned that at least one person in the home believed they had COVID-19.
When agents placed a mask on his face, Goodwyn “attempted to chew through the mask and spit the mask out,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Goodwyn was released to home confinement in February. But prosecutors said he repeatedly refuses to wear a mask, show up to meetings or report his location.
Since his arrest, Goodwyn has “flouted the conditions, making clear that he does not appreciate the privilege of pretrial release provided to him by the Court,” prosecutors said.
It’s a #ing muzzle
A fink. Thats a good one, I think I last heard that on Leave it to Beaver.
Impfung Macht Frei
Bent but not broken.
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Is that you Johnny Hart?
(Wizard of I’d, “The King is a Funk”)
Id, not I’d.
@#$ auto correctum !)
Those mask fetishists are some twisted, evil people.
Judge Reggie B. Walton, if anyone would like an image to go with the name... for later.
Seems corrupt? The entire thing needs to be torn down and rebuilt with the Constitution and Bill of Rights as its base. Natural Rights must be front and center.
Promoting wholesale slavery of the people while using his color to defend it.
If he has a doctor for his autism, they could take a sworn deposition and enter it into the court proceedings.
Let’s see what develops.
I still maintain that anyone who supports these COVID measures are either very ignorant or just plain evil.
This judge, is a highly educated individual, and I assume that he is also highly intelligent, so he would be the later.
I personally hope tyranny/revolts explode globally over this. Especially when employers begin to mandate vaccinations.
Indeed I was inspired by The Wizard of Id.
“I personally hope tyranny/revolts explode globally over this. Especially when employers begin to mandate vaccinations.”
If it’s going to, I wish it would while my grandkids are small enough to protect.
And when the British King said that exact same sentence, George Washington responded, “Here, hold my beer.”
They’ll squash it on appeal, but this one needs to go to Scotus.
One such case won’t get there, but multiple test cases will. Keep pushing!
True, but judges run the courthouses.
Despite being a generally maskless state, here in FL I have to wear a mask inside our county courthouse because the FL Supreme Court says so.
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